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The Flash Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Pilot

First aired: Sep/20/1990
Writer: Danny Bilson, Paul DeMeo
Director: Robert Iscove
Guest star: Sam Vlahos (Dr. Lawrence), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), David L. Crowley (Swat Captain), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Lycia Naff (Lila), Paula Marshall (Iris West), Christopher Murray (Highway Patrolman), Robert Hooks (Chief Arthur Cooper), Virginia Morris (Mother), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Josh Cruze (Petrolli), M. Emmet Walsh (Henry Allen), Richard Hoyt Miller (Young Father), Mariko Tse (Linda Park), Tim Thomerson (Jay Allen), Priscilla Pointer (Nora Allen), Richard Belzer (Joe Kline), Patrie Allen (Eve Allen), Brad Sevy (Waiter), Eric Dare (Tyrone), Jan Stango (Young Mother), Justin Burnette (Shawn Allen), Ricky Dean Logan (Scott), Wayne Pére (Rick), Michael Nader (Nicholas Pike)

A lab accident caused by a bolt of lightning gives police scientist Barry Allen the power of super-speed. He ask Dr.Tina McGee of STAR Labs for help, and is determined to get revenge on Pike, the leader of the motorcycle gang who killed his brother.


2 :01x02 - Out of Control

First aired: Sep/27/1990
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
Director: Mario Azzopardi
Guest star: Bill Dunnam (Jack), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), John Toles-Bey (Father Michael), Stan Ivar (Dr. Carl Tanner), Jeff Perry (Charlie), Michael Earl Reid (Mickey), Robert Benedetti (Dr. Mortimer), Mario Roccuzzo (Sam), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Macka Foley (Cop)

Barry investigates the cases of the homeless people kidnapped and then left dead and horribly deformed. Meanwhile, Tina's old friend and colleague arrives in town. Is there a connection?


3 :01x03 - Watching the Detectives

First aired: Oct/18/1990
Writer: Howard Chaykin, John Francis Moore
Director: Gus Trikonis
Guest star: Richard Belzer (Joe Kline), Joyce Hyser (Megan Lockhart), Vito D'Ambrosio (Bellows), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Vincent Guastaferro (Thomas Castillo (as Vincent F. Guastaferro)), Harris Laskaway (Arthur Simonson), Biff Manard (Murphy), Helen Martin (Sadie Grosso), Jordan Lund (Noble John Spanier), Dick Miller (Fosnight), Hubert Braddock (Bartender), Patrick Cupo (Lounge Lizard (as Pat Cupo)), Darrell Harris (Gillespie), Manuel Perry (Gordo), Brenda Swanson (Slinky Dame), Frankie Thorn (Judith), Nicholas Trikonis (Pat), Gloria Reuben (Sabrina)

A corrupted D.A. hires a private investigator to discover Flash's identity.


4 :01x04 - Honor Among Thieves

First aired: Oct/25/1990
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Guest star: Clarence Clemons (Darrell Hennings), Michael Wyle (Anderson), Ian Buchanan (Stan Kovacs), Justin Burnette (Shawn Allen), Sav Farrow (Franco Mortelli), Michael Greene (Mitch Lestrange), Lydie Denier (Kate Tatting), Elizabeth Gracen (Celia Wayne), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Rene Assa (Mark Bernhardt), Ping Wu (Chu Lee), Jon Menick (Parry Johnson), Paul Linke (Ted Preminger)

Barry meets an old girlfriend while setting up security at a museum.


5 :01x05 - Double Vision

First aired: Nov/01/1990
Writer: Jim Trombetta
Director: Gus Trikonis
Guest star: Richard Belzer (Joe Kline), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), William Marquez (Felix Tomarquin), Zitto Kazann (The Santero), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Charley Hayward (Marcos Trachmann), Karla Montana (Paloma Aguilar), Elisabeth Chavez (Sofia Tomarquin), Richard Yniguez (Peter Paul Aguilar), Ricardo Gutierrez (Father Becerra), Clifton Gonzalez (Javier O'Hara), Miguel Fernandes (Reuben Calderon), Anne Gee Byrd (Official)

A mad scientist has somehow found the way to control the Flash to do his bidding. But Barry doesn't remember any of these things.


6 :01x06 - Sins of the Father

First aired: Nov/08/1990
Writer: Steve Hattman
Director: Jonathan Sanger
Guest star: Cole McKay (Pool Player #1), Will Gill, Jr. (Security Guard), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Richard Kuss (Pete Donello), Wes Studi (Roller), Fred Lerner (Welles), Paul Koslo (Johnny Ray Hix), Ralph Seymour (Danny Duffy), Richard G. Camphuis (Prison Guard), M. Emmet Walsh (Henry Allen), Chuck Hicks (Senior Officer), Pete Antico (Pool Player #2), Michael James (Gruber), Robert Shayne (Reggie), Priscilla Pointer (Nora Allen)

A man that Barry's father put in prison escapes and comes seeking for revenge and the loot he hid.


7 :01x07 - Child's Play

First aired: Nov/15/1990
Director: Danny Bilson
Guest star: Michele Lamar Richards (Joan Sullivan), Jonathan Brandis (Terry Cohan), Mark Dacascos (Osako), Remy Ryan Hernandez (Cory Cohan), Ivonne Coll (Carmen Hijuelos), Lance Gilbert (Aliota), Freddie Dawson (Phillip Sullivan), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Alec Murdock (Passenger), Perrey Reeves (Pepper), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Jimmie F. Skaggs (Beauregarde Lesko), Kirk Baltz (Duvivier), Patricia Tallman (Kidnapper #2)

The Flash comes to the aid of an orphan who has incriminating information on a cult leader.


8 :01x08 - Shroud of Death

First aired: Nov/29/1990
Director: Mario Azzopardi
Guest star: Margueritte Ray (Mrs. Foster), Don Hood (Frank Dejoy), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Lenore Kasdorf (Mavis), Fred Pinkard (Judge Malcom Foster), Dani Klein (Reporter), Lora Zane (Angel Zacharias), Randy Montgomery (Aide), Walter Olkewicz (Jack Callahan)

An assassin is on the loose in Central City and the Flash must find the only clue that can provide a lead to his location.


9 :01x09 - Ghost in the Machine

First aired: Dec/13/1990
Writer: John Francis Moore, Howard Chaykin
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest star: Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Floyd Raglin (Tex), Anthony Starke (The Ghost), Richard Belzer (Joe Kline), Sherri Rose (Young Belle), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Jason Bernard (Dr. Desmond Powell / Nightshade), Gloria Reuben (Sabrina), Ian Abercrombie (Skip), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Lois Nettleton (Belle Crocker)

A villain from Central City's past, the Ghost, is brought out of electronic suspension and begins a new rampage using "advanced" 1990s technology. To stop him, the Flash turns to the Ghost's old nemesis, Nightshade.


10 :01x10 - Sight Unseen

First aired: Jan/10/1991
Director: Christopher Leitch
Guest star: James Tartan (Dr. Emil Velinski), Deborah May (Ruth Werneke), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Christopher Neame (Brian Gideon), Robert Shayne (Reggie), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), François Giroday (Dr. Taylor Cartwright), Sara Daly (Edwards), George Dickerson (Quinn), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield)

The Flash must taken on an invisible opponent when an intruder breaks into STAR Labs.


11 :01x11 - Beat the Clock

First aired: Jan/31/1991
Writer: Jim Trombetta
Director: Mario Azzopardi
Guest star: Angela Bassett (Linda Lake), Dennis Vero (Morgue Attendant), Eugene Lee ("Decibel" Dave Buell), Joe Bellan (Security Guard), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), John Toles-Bey (Father Michael), Richard Belzer (Joe Kline), Jay Arlen Jones (Wayne Cotrell), Thomas Mikal Ford (Elliott Cotrell), Ken Foree (Whisper)

Barry and Julio must beat the clock to prove a jazz musician innocent of murder before his execution at midnight.


12 :01x12 - The Trickster

First aired: Feb/07/1991
Writer: Howard Chaykin, John Francis Moore
Director: Danny Bilson
Guest star: Joyce Hyser (Megan Lockhart), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Christopher Murphy (Williams), William Long, Jr. (Matthews), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Gloria Reuben (Sabrina), Mark Hamill (James Jesse / Trickster), Timothy Stack (Jim Kline (Arthur))

The maniacal James Jesse takes on the villainous identity of the Trickster and goes after Barry's old girlfriend Megan.


13 :01x13 - Tina, Is That You?

First aired: Feb/14/1991
Director: William Fraker
Guest star: Ivy Bethune (Old Woman), William Forward (Dr. Whilhite), Richard Belzer (Joe Kline), Courtney Gebhart (Janie Jones), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Bella Pollini (Harley), John Santucci (Big Ed), Mary Gillas (Nurse Gladys Gillis), Denise Dillard (Shauna Duke), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Yvette Nipar (Lisa March)

Barry's dreams of Tina betraying him become true when she hooks him up to a mind scanner and his mental images of her are imposed onto her mind, turning her into a ganger.


14 :01x14 - Be My Baby

First aired: Feb/21/1991
Writer: Jule Selbo
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest star: Robert Z'Dar (Bodey Nuff), Kimberly Neville (Ann Doubec), David Chemel (Roy), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Dick Miller (Fosnight), Bryan Cranston (Philip Moses), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Priscilla Pointer (Nora Allen), John Hostetter (Dave Mills)

The Flash comes to the aid of a mother and her babies, who are on the run from her criminal husband.


15 :01x15 - Fast Forward

First aired: Feb/27/1991
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
Director: Gus Trikonis
Guest star: Robert O'Reilly (Victor Kelso), Gloria Reuben (Sabrina), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Justin Burnette (Shawn Allen), Richard Belzer (Joe Kline), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Paul Whitthorne (Shawn Allen (age 17)), Beth Windsor (Monica), Michael Nader (Nicholas Pike), Hank Stone (Cop #1)

Nicholas Pike escapes jail and goes hunting for the Flash. However, the resulting missile explosion sends Barry ten years into the future where he discovers that Pike has become the "mayor" of Central City in Barry's absence.


16 :01x16 - Deadly Nightshade

First aired: Mar/30/1991
Writer: John Francis Moore
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest star: Denise Crosby (Rebecca Frost), Richard Burgi (Curtis Bohannan), Dick Miller (Fosnight), Jason Bernard (Dr. Desmond Powell / Nightshade), John Fuller (Steve 4K), Gloria LeRoy (Pearl), Will McMillan (Chesley Keefe), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Richard Belzer (Joe Kline), Jeri Ryan (Felicia Kane (as Jeri Lynn Ryan))

The Nightshade must come out of retirement once more to help the Flash when an unknown vigilante takes on the aged hero's name... but brutally guns down criminals.


17 :01x17 - Captain Cold

First aired: Apr/06/1991
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Guest star: Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Michael Champion (Captain Cold), Lisa Darr (Terri Kronenberg), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Jeffrey Combs (Jimmy Swain), Dick Miller (Fosnight), François Chao (Johnny Choi), Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter (Nikolai Brown), Jerry D. O'Donnell (Ray McGill (as Jerry O'Donnell)), Erni Vales (Luis Vega)

A hitman who uses cryogenic weaponry is hired to take care of the Flash... permanently.


18 :01x18 - Twin Streaks

First aired: Apr/13/1991
Writer: Steve Hattman
Director: James A. Contner
Guest star: Lenny Von Dohlen (Jason Brassell), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Charley Lang (Ted Whitcomb)

A scientist manages to clone the Flash, creating a childlike duplicate with all of Barry's powers... and none of his conscience.


19 :01x19 - Done With Mirrors

First aired: Apr/27/1991
Writer: Howard Chaykin, John Francis Moore
Director: Danny Bilson
Guest star: Gloria Reuben (Sabrina), Carolyn Seymour (Jocelyn Weller), David Cassidy (Sam Scudder / Mirror Master), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Zack Norman (Tallent), Signy Coleman (Stasia Masters), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy)

A new villain, the Mirror Master, arrives in town and conducts a series of thefts. The last theft, from Star Labs, gets Tina in town. Meanwhile, Barry meets a high school friend and Tina deals with her visiting mother.


20 :01x20 - Good Night, Central City

First aired: May/04/1991
Writer: Jim Trombetta
Director: Mario Azzopardi
Guest star: Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Bill Mumy (Roger Braintree), Richard Belzer (Joe Kline), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Jeffrey King (Jack Farrow), Dick Miller (Fosnight), Matt Landers (Harry Milgrim), Victor Rivers (Stanley Morse), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Pamela Gordon (Morgue Attendant)

A criminal invents a device that can put people to sleep, and fakes his own death to put his scheme into motion.


21 :01x21 - Alpha

First aired: May/11/1991
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest star: Claire Stansfield (Alpha One), Anthony Powers (Jioey C.), Sven-Ole Thorsen (Omega One), Dick Miller (Fosnight), Laura Robinson (Colonel Christine Powers), Kenneth Tigar (Dr. Jason Rossick), Ross Partridge (Wiseguy), Jason Azikiwe (Costigan), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Biff Manard (Officer Murphy)

An experimental android seeks out Tina for help.


22 :01x22 - The Trial of the Trickster

First aired: May/18/1991
Writer: Howard Chaykin, John Francis Moore
Director: Danny Bilson
Guest star: Biff Manard (Officer Murphy), Brad Sevy (Waiter), Parley Baer (Judge), Mark Hamill (James Jesse/Trickster), Vito D'Ambrosio (Officer Bellows), Gloria Reuben (Sabrina), Marsha Clark (Denise Cowan), Joyce Hyser (Megan Lockhart), Mike Genovese (Lt. Warren Garfield), Richard Belzer (Joe Kline), Corinne Bohrer (Zoey Clark)

The Trickster engineers an escape during his trial. When the Flash comes after him, the Trickster brainwashes him into becoming his partner in crime.